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Since the first country on the continent became independent, African governments have been more or less pre-occupied with socio-economic development. Increasingly, the inter-phase between politics and socio-economic development have becoming increasingly evident and more emphasis is been placed on the direct link between politics, good governance, economics and the lives of Africans.To this end, the journal brings together wide spectra of scholars and researchers engaging in vigorous theoretical and empirical research on African politics, economic policies and the implications for the survival of states and the larger African society.

African Journal of Business and Economic Research (AJBER) is a blind refereed, high quality international journal that provides a forum for the publication of articles from academics, business practitioners, and policy makers. The journal aims to advance both theoretical and empirical research, inform policies and practices, and improve understanding of how economic and business decisions shape the lives of Africans.

African Performance Review is a bi-annual journal of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) dedicated to publishing, disseminating and encouraging high quality research and information on theatres and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. The journal publishes articles, review articles and reviews on all aspects of African performance and theatre.,

African Renaissance is a quarterly peer-reviewed high quality international journal published consistently since 2004, making it one of the longest surviving scholarly social science journals on Africa published by Africans. The journal aims to advance both theoretical and empirical research on themes and dynamics that inform policies and practices in different African countries. The journal accepts papers that may have a continental, regional or country focus. African Renaissance is indexed by SABINET, EBSCO, ProQuest, and J-Gate and accredited by IBSS and SCOPUS.

Journal of African Films and Diaspora Studies (JAFDIS) is a
multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, international journal intending
to provide a forum for the publication of articles from academics,
business practitioners, and policy makers on African films and
issues concerning Africans in the Diaspora.

JoAFA, a high quality bi-annual and peer reviewed academic journal hopes to contribute to deepening critical thinking anresearch across disciplines relating to African politics, economy, foreign policy, diplomacy and international relation. The journal takes special interest in Africa's fortunes in a fast-changing world order.

The advent of the African Union (AU) was hailed as an event of great magnitude in the institutional evolution of the continent. One of the central visions of the AU is that of \an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.\" The AU is currently proactively engaged in achieving some of the salient objectives it had set out for itself to achieve, including the achievement of greater unity and solidarity between African countries and the peoples of Africa, the promotion and defence of African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples, the promotion of peace, security and stability on the continent, the promotion of popular participation and good governance and the establishment of the necessary conditions which would enable the continent to play its rightful role in the global economy.In the light of increasing globalisation the AU's enhanced participation in international affairs, there is a need to engage in critical and rigorous scholarly inquiry about the AU and its important endeavours. This is the main rationale for the setting up of the Journal of African Union Studies. The journal hopes to be a platform for African and international scholars to contribute towards a critical, rigorous and well-informed academic appraisal and debate of the African Union and its involvement in all critical spheres relating to the promotion of its African agenda."

The Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa (JGIDA) strives towards excellence and relevance in African scholarship. JGIDA will promote freedom of inquiry and research with a view to stimulating and entrenching a culture and tradition of independent African research issues. To this end, JGIDA will foreground the following: African responses to regional challenges; African world views; knowledge bases that are intrinsically and inherently African; indigenous ways of thinking; knowledge systems based on African realities; implication of ICTs in information societies, research reflecting the social, economic and developmental constructs of African scholarship. JGIDA will strive to engender high quality international scholarly excellence focusing on the research needs of the knowledge economy, technology innovation and transfer predicated on diverse cross disciplinary subjects in the social sciences, humanities and the arts. Well researched articles that encourage the creation of new knowledge on the above themes are encouraged.

The Journal of Nation-building and Policy Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed academic and policy oriented periodical dedicated to the study of issues of nation-building and policy processes in Nigeria. It provides a platform for academics and policy makers to interrogate the nation-building processes in Nigeria, the challenges to nation-building in the country and the way forward.

JOSS is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary scholarly journal dedicated to advancing critical scholarship on the history, culture, politics, linguistics and economics of the Somali society and the experiences of the Somali Diaspora around the globe.

Ubuntu stands for humaneness built on the foundations of a relational worldview embedded in most African cultures and reflected in the philosophy of non-violent conflict transformation. The journal isexpected to serve as a forum for scholars in the field of peace studies who seek to go beyond the paradigm of power and rational choice assumptions to tap on moral and creative human potential to resolve conflicts in a just manner in recognition of human interrelatedness and connection. For about two decades (since about the 1990s), there has been greater realization that the focus of any meaningful resolution of conflict should not be about the mere ettlement of conflicts; rather, it should embraceways and means by which the parties can be brought to live together and cooperate in the future to avoid a recourse to conflict and war. That purpose is at the heart of the focus of Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation.